Executive Summary Storage Location MRP Areas can be used in both SNP and GATP. This article describes a design that accounts for both regional allocation of stock and bonded and unbounded stock in a facility (or closely located facilities). GATP can provide available promises for the same product, which is differentiated by the regional allocation…
Executive Summary Nearly all SAP consultants provide false information on the issues related to SAP in a process called sugarcoating. In this article, we debate a person who sugar-coated the issues with SAP DP. Background on Differing Views on SAP DP Recovery A consultant who had some critiques of the articles in this blog recently…
Executive Summary Knowledge transfer is typically managed very poorly with SAP contracts. A major problem is the declining quality of SAP documentation. Introduction to SAP Documentation I was recently asked how a company performing an SAP implementation can improve its understanding of SAP. This was within the company’s context, noting that some of its resources…
Executive Summary SAP GATP can be used to model supplier capacity with allocations. There are many disadvantages to performing supplier capacity modeling in SNP. In this article, we will cover the GATP background and how to set up applications in GATP. Introduction The ability to model supplier capacities is a common request from companies. This…
Executive Summary We cover the history of MRP and DRP and how these methods were developed and why MRP is the basis of DRP, and how both became absorbed into ERP. Video Introduction: How to Understand The History of MRP and DRP Text Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video) This is a comprehensive article on…
Executive Summary Labor constraints can be managed with a labor pool in SNP and PP/DS, and ERP. There is a relationship between the labor pool and machine resources. Is APO really the right place to constrain the labor resource? Introduction to the Bottleneck Resource The bottleneck resource is critical to managing production constraints. You will…
Executive Summary A Planned Order or a Planned Production Order is different from a Purchase Requisition. How Purchase Requisitions sent to outlier locations, and how can one determine if Purchased Requisitions should be in APO? Video Introduction: Understanding Planned Orders Text Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video) There is confusing terminology used in SAP…
Executive Summary Background of planning role organization at a client. Companies that have planning roles assigned by product group or by customer. How SAP APO and advanced planning, in general, have planning roles setup. How does master data maintenance change with the implementation of advanced planning systems? Introduction APO is designed around a role segmentation…
Executive Summary There is a supply planning horizon per planning run, and these changes depending up whether this is the Initial Supply Plan, S&OP, Rough Cut Capacity Plan, etc. In APO, there is an SNP Heuristic Time Stream, a CTM Time Stream, a Cost Optimization Time Stream, and a Deployment Planning Thread, a Deployment Heuristic, and…
Executive Summary What is a manufacturing supermarket? How have companies changed the definition of a supermarket? What is the connection between a supermarket and a supply planning application? What is a Manufacturing Supermarket? The concept of a supermarket was first developed by Toyota and kept supplier stocking locations close to the Toyota factory. The following…